It is difficult to comment on the Catalan elections without assuming that the best summary is boredom. Massive, total, absolute, polyhedral, whatever, but boredom. At this point, unfortunately, we must remember that electoral campaigns serve to, one, explain the future government plan; two, mobilize voters, and three, reduce undecided voters. Mobilizing is not the same as reducing undecided people. Believe me.
That said, it seems that none of that happens, they talk about what they have done, who they will make an agreement with, and they talk to their own people in those masses (rallies) that do not convince anyone, not even those convinced. Ah! and whether Pedro Sánchez is leaving or not, and the fake news, as if it were something new. We have more politicians who say they do than politicians who do.
They propose little, motivate less, and spend more minutes on who they will agree with than on the problems, (and look, there are some). Talking about pacts only shows the desire for power and zero will to solve.
I'm sorry to make you all angry, but those of us who depend on you can be even angrier. ERC talks about what it has done and faces the most difficult situation of all, governing with Junts, with whom it does not get along, or supporting two socialist governments, that of Sánchez and that of Salvador Illa, which would make them The Catalan branch of the PSOE and the PSC would definitively become the Catalan branch of Sanchismo. The PP will quadruple results, for what? To the pride of Alejandro Fernández, a great speaker but who knows that he will not be able to condition anything, only his permanence. Together, with a Carles Puigdemont who either wins or must leave, unless he does a Sánchez thing and decides to stay because it is worth continuing. Vox is holding on well, no one has understood the phenomenon of expulsion of migration from Barcelona and its electoral consequences in the second belt. The common ones, sorry for the colloquialism, but as long as Illa holds on and they invite them, they'll do it. That is, they think about surviving, not contributing. The rest, mere stone guests to an election that needs a dose of Viagra to stir up some passion.
The next president of the Generalitat will be the result of betrayal. Whoever is, he must betray someone. ERC to the independence movement, the PSC to its traditional values because it either makes an agreement with the independence movement or with the old Convergència today radicalized in Junts. Who doesn't remember Nicaragua Street explaining to Ferraz Street “CiU is the right but you don't understand it”? Today, they not only understand it, but they are offered to govern. Junts, either softens its speech against ERC and gives in or both will be out of power. ERC cannot sustain two socialist presidents if it wants to live, and Junts knows it and that is why it presses.
Anyway, with all this on the table, there is only one clear conclusion, whoever is in charge, will not govern in peace, and we Catalans will be able to confirm that no anem bé.
